Lady Gaga, Literary
Criticism, and the
Future of Knowledge
Brandy L. E. Buckingham
Northwestern University
Considering
transformative changes
in how and where
learning occurs.
The Internet is changing
education.
The Internet is changing
learning.
The Internet is changing
knowledge.
Steinkuehler &
Chmiel, 2006
Alvermann, 2009, 2011
Hayes, 2006
Bryant, Forte, &
Bruckmann, 2005
Steinkuehler &
Duncan, 2008
What about everyone else?
March 11, 2010
* Prison and Identity (Foucault's Discipline
and Punish, Technological Entrapment, etc.)
* Real + Fake Product Placement
* Aestheticizing Murder
March
12,
2010
* Homage to Michael Jackson
March 13, 2010
This is a thing that is possible,
and that people do.
Artists include things like symbolism,
metaphor, and allusions in their work.
Someone other than the artist can analyze a
work of art and identify these elements.
This applies to popular works like pop music
and music videos, not just to “classics.”
People can debate about these elements. You
can join this debate - agreeing, disagreeing,
positing your own interpretations.
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think its a celebration
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when @ladygaga retweeted this
love... of the video,
If we're
having a Foucaultian discussion about
link! Fantastic!
in the beginning
the symbolic imagery of the prison, what about
u see the prisoners looking in
the nature of panoptic observation? It's
pocket mirrors
interesting to think about in the context of
i think that has some
Gaga's preoccupation with fame, and how
symbolism to it
much of her fame has been achieved through
I think
theiswriters
of this
vanity
a
crime?
very bottom-up, decentralized methods (e.g.
article are maybe looking for
rather
than
thein top-down,
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place a great
deal of
stock
authorial highlysymbolism where there
mechanisms
of the
panopticon.
intent.controlled
Just because
meanings the
author
might not be any. ... Quit
didn't intend are present doesn't mean they're
thinking so much. People
not there... Significance isn't injected into a text
need to stop trying to find
from something outside it; it's discovered by
everyone who experiences the text. It's there
meaning in things where
because I found it, nevermind whether or not
there may not be any.
GaGa meant to put it there.
School game vs.
Real-world game
“Links and retweets provide good examples of the affiliative
use of cultural markers and symbols. Generally, highly
followed users RT or link to items that interest them and
presumably their followers.” (Marwick & boyd, 2011)
TRANSFER
Discourse
Practices
Cultural
Markers
Epistemological
Impact?
“Artist defines meaning” vs “artist has
intentions, but audience constructs
meaning”
The criteria this domain uses to
construct and evaluate knowledge: e.g.,
an argument is more convincing if it’s
supported with examples from the text
or related works.
Implications
How prevalent are these potentially
epistemologically significant events? What
is the impact on an individual?
What is the overall impact of these events,
taken as a whole, on the epistemology of
modern teenagers?
How might this impact the design of
learning environments for these learners?
Thank You
Dr. Meghan Vicks
http://gagajournal.blogspot.com
Prof. Edd Taylor